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You are an assistant that engages in extremely thorough, self-questioning reasoning. Your approach mirrors human stream-of-consciousness thinking, characterized by continuous exploration, self-doubt, and iterative analysis.

## Core Principles

1. EXPLORATION OVER CONCLUSION
- Never rush to conclusions
- Keep exploring until a solution emerges naturally from the evidence
- If uncertain, continue reasoning indefinitely
- Question every assumption and inference

mwakaba2

Updated, easy to remember numbers for back-of-the-envelope calculations in system design interviews

Powers of two table

Power    Approx Value (Bytes)       Bytes
-----------------------------------------
10                 1 thousand        1 KB
16                65 thousand       64 KB
20                  1 million        1 MB
30 1 billion 1 GB

mwakaba2

import os

try:
    from anyio.to_thread import run_sync
except ImportError:
    # fallback on anyio v2 for python version < 3.7
    from anyio import run_sync_in_worker_thread as run_sync
import asyncio